Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery? — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
In the culture of pluralism...the only thing that cannot be tolerated is a claim to exclusivity. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Democrats all claim they'll get rough with the terrorists, but they can't even face Brit Hume. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims. — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Natural objects themselves, even when they make no claim to beauty, excite the feelings, and occupy the imagination. Nature pleases, attracts, delights,… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Man toils, and strives, and wastes his little life to claim-- At last the transient glory of a splendid name, And have,… — Andrew Jackson Downing Copy Share Image
My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
You may have the administration of angels, you may see many miracles; . . . but I claim that the gift of… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
We cannot expect that millions are practicing real yoga just because millions of people claim to be doing yoga all over the… — Prashant Iyengar Copy Share Image
Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
For who is there but you? Who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this,… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religious… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The more I look around and listen I realize that I'm not alone. We are all facing choices that define us. No… — Sabrina Ward Harrison Copy Share Image
The theory of punctuated equilibrium, proposed by Niles Eldredge and myself, is not, as so often misunderstood, a radical claim for truly… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
I'm thinking about some developments say in the 80s when the anti-apartheid movement began to claim more support and strength within the… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
The oil industry fought hard to keep Keystone alive, making wildly exaggerated claims that the pipeline - the country's largest infrastructure project… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
So where does the name Adam's apple come from? Most people say that it is from the notion that this bump was… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
The Libertarians, of whom I'm rather fond, are running Harry Browne. Libertarians are, just as they claim, principled and consistent- they believe… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The claim that the Government made that there were 21 measures in it is wrong. We said we wanted to wait till… — Tony Burke Copy Share Image
Love is the simplest of all earthly things. It needs no grandeur of celestial trust In more than what it is, no… — Arthur Davison Ficke Copy Share Image
How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
A state is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people… — Stella Blum Copy Share Image
When I was young, I thought confidence could be earned w/ perfection. Now I know that you don't earn it; you claim… — Cecelie Berry Copy Share Image
You are perfectly entitled to invent your life and to claim that it's true. — James Salter Copy Share Image
In a liberal scientific society, to claim that you are above error is the height of irresponsibility. — Jonathan Rauch Copy Share Image
I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its… — Nat King Cole Copy Share Image
If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost. — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
No man can claim to usurp more than a few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room. . . . — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who claim to have found it. — Anodea Judith Copy Share Image
